Board of Trustees

Malaria Consortium is governed by a Board of Trustees, which meets quarterly and for its Annual General Meeting (AGM). A Finance and Audit subcommittee monitors the finances of the organisation, meeting at least quarterly, and makes recommendations to the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees takes the major strategic decisions for the organisation. Every year Trustees are invited to visit programmes in the field to ensure they are fully informed about Malaria Consortium’s activities at country level. Day-to-day operational decision-making is delegated to the Acting Chief Executive, who, with the other members of the Global Management Group, runs the organisation.

Our Board of Trustees are:

• Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt - Chair
• Richard Page - Treasurer
• Roger Wilson
• Ian Boulton
• Tim Armstrong
• Robert Seabrook QC
• Professor Melissa Leach

Our Patrons are:

• Rt. Revd Bishop Dinis S Singulane (Honorary Patron)
     

Chairman

Dr Julian Lob-Levyt
Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt is Senior Vice President International with DAI, based in London.  Dr Lob-Levyt leads the development of DAI's international operations to become a recognised global company within the field of International Development.  As CEO of the GAVI Alliance between 2005 and 2010, Dr. Lob-Levyt led GAVI, resulting in the delivery of immunisation to over 250 million children, preventing more than five million deaths globally.  Previously Dr. Lob-Levyt was Head of Human Development and Chief Health and Population Advisor at the UK's Department for International Development, Regional Health Advisor in Zimbabwe for the EC, led health systems reform in Cambodia, was First Secretary Health for Overseas Development Aid in Bandladesh and Chief Medical Officer in the Solomon Islands. In the 2011 Queen's birthday honours, he was awarded a CBE for 'Services to Global Health'.

Trustees 

Roger Wilson
Roger Wilson is an international development professional who worked for the UK's Department for International Development. His experience includes governance as Chief Governance Adviser, country programme management (Malawi, Zambia and India), public service reform in the UK and developing countries, structuring project financing with a merchant bank, and commodity trading in the London commodity markets. He now works as a consultant on governance.

Richard Page
After working as an industrial statistician to the Malawi Government, Richard Page qualified as an accountant with Marconi and H.J.Heinz. He then lectured in business studies before returning to industry with Fisons Fertilisers. His senior positions have been with Kafue Textiles of Zambia as CFO and then as CEO; CFO at Nanyuki Textiles Mills in Kenya then as Finance Director in engineering and manufacturing companies in the UK. He is presently the Director of Finance with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a magistrate.
 
Ian Boulton
Ian Boulton is currently the Managing Director of TropMed Pharma Consulting. He previously worked for 34 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with 19 years spent in Asia. He has experience in General Management, Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Corporate Acquisitions, and R&D. For the last 8 years with GlaxoSmithKline, he was one of the leaders of their Diseases of the Developing World Initiative. He has been a Board Member of the RBM Partnership, has advised the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria on their pricing and product quality assurance policies, and is currently a member of the Fund’s Market Dynamics Advisory Group. He is a Chartered Scientist and Chartered Chemist as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, of the Chartered Management Institute, and of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Tim Armstrong
Tim Armstrong has worked as a Chartered Accountant in the audit profession in Africa and the Middle East and with a leading international consultancy firm specialising in financing and managing major projects in the developing world. Tim has held a number of senior positions in UK financial regulation.

Robert Seabrook QC
Robert Seabrook QC is a leading barrister in the UK, with wide ranging experience across jurisdiction.  In recent years he has concentrated on clinical negligence, medical disciplinary work and substantial matrimonial finance and property cases.  His forensic skills are frequently called upon for cases outside these areas such as child sex abuse, action relating to the police and medical crime.

Professor Melissa Leach
Melissa Leach is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Sussex, and Director of the ESRC STEPS  (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) Centre. She  originally trained as a geographer (MA Cambridge) and social anthropologist (PhD London). Over the last 25 years she has been closely involved both in ethnographic fieldwork, speaking four African languages, and in extensive interdisciplinary research. This has engaged anthropology with historical, ecological and science and technology studies approaches, as well as working with foresters, agricultural and medical scientists. Professor Leach's recent work has explored the politics of science and knowledge in policy processes linked to environment and health, especially vaccination, medical research trials and emerging infectious diseases.

Patron

Rt. Revd Bishop Dinis S Singulane (Honorary Patron)
Dinus Singulane is an Anglican Bishop of Libombos in Lichinga, Mozambique. He serves as the chair of the Mozambican Roll Back Malaria programme which has provided a great deal of support to Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and other partners. He became an Honorary Patron of Malaria Consortium in 2006.